international affairs, i'm also aware of how fragile democracy is. look at poland. the poster child for democracy in europe over the last 25 years, where a new party in power has subordinated the judiciary courts and media to its authority. look at russia, where the democratic tradition so promising in the 1990s has almost vanished. look at turkey, where a once reformist leader has decided to accumulate power and erode traditions of freedom and democracy that were rare in the middle east. it doesn't feel like it could happen in america, the oldest constitutional democracy in the world, with many checks and balances. but in fact, it takes one man, one party, one vote to break long-standing traditions of constitutionalism, and the system can morph. we now face the prospect of a candidate refusing to accept the outcome of the election. of mobs protesting and perhaps hoping to change that outcome because they have been fed lies about voter fraud, of congress